Propyläen
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The Propyläen was a periodical begun in July of 1798 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his friend Heinrich Meyer. During its short, three-year existence its various contributors and editors, for example, essays by Wilhelm von Humbolt and Friedrich von Schiller, sought to address, disseminate, and foment ideas and fundamental conceptions concerning art and aesthetic processes and therewith determine, on cultural and social levels of influence, what characterizes art's essential import and its practice by artists.
Propyläen comes from the Greek “propulaion”, an entryway to a particular building; this implies the building is life into which the artist must enter, and the periodical, and/or its various themes, represents this “entryway”.
